The American Medicines Company (AMC) project continues to move forward with it’s location search in West Virginia. A site inspection of property owned by USG, made possible through the efforts of Commissioner Matt Walker and Senator Joe Manchin, recently took place at the former United States Army Reserve Center located on Route 5 West, Annamoriah, WV. Although the facility did not prove itself large enough for the first commercial facility, they believe it would be viable for a single product site such as is required for Levothyroxine tablets. Levothyroxine is the 3rd most prescribed medication in the US with multiple strengths. This would allow for the site to be fully utilized from a capacity standpoint which is an important cost factor to consider.
The executive team of AMC visited the site a second time last week to include Brian Duncan, Vice Chairman of the Board, Kathy Meyer CEO and Dilip Joshi Executive Vice President Engineering and Operations. AMC
The Reserve facility will be going on the desposal list very soon and AMC will be submitting a letter of interest to USG next week as they continue to secure facility details to ensure the necessary design can be accomplished.
AMC is also working with the US government on the broader strategy and is pursuing support via the Defense Production Act to mitigate what could very well be the biggest unknown American Crisis with greater that 98% of American’s medication for chronic disease coming from outside of the US (primarily India and China). WV State officials are also committed to supporting this effort.
Crystal informed Ridgeview News that “We plan to have a joint meeting with both government entities in the next few weeks to define next steps. The AMC Executive Team is committed to WV and continue to be hopeful that Calhoun will have a good stake in the opportunity. Having a small manufacturing footprint in Calhoun would also allow us a good foundation to bring more back office operations here as well.”
